Quotes About Renewal

It is the nature of the world of form that nothing stays fixed for very long - and so it starts to fall apart again. Forms dissolve; new forms arise. Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.

You have a name, a past, a life situation, a future. But in one essential respect, you are not the same person you were before

Will you become less when you let go of it?

Do you want an easy death? Would you rather die without pain, without agony? Then die to the past every moment, and let the light of your presence shine away the heavy, time-bound self you thought of as you.

Die to the past every moment.

It is your conscious Presence that breaks the identification with the pain-body. When you don't identify with it, the pain-body can no longer control your thinking and so cannot renew itself anymore by feeding on your thoughts. The pain-body in most cases does not dissolve immediately, but once you have severed the link between it and your thinking, the pain-body begins to lose energy. Your thinking ceases to be clouded by emotion; your present perceptions are no longer distorted by the past.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating fundamentally the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Morra para o passado a cada instante

A new heaven" is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and "a new earth" is its reflection in the physical realm.

DIE TO THE PAST EVERY MOMENT. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present.

If you can learn to accept and even welcome the endings in your life, you may find that the feeling of emptiness that initially felt uncomfortable turns into a sense of inner spaciousness that is deeply peaceful. By learning to die daily in this way, you open yourself to Life.

that was April

Confession is always a good place to start when we feel lost.

I have been taught by misery, he said. He had learned that no crime was beyond atonement, that even he, defiled by a mother's murder, could be made clean again.

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

But I am born happy every morning

Archer looked down with wonder at the familiar spectacle. It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.

Each time you happen to me all over again

Conservatives, he said, "are taught to believe that change means destruction. They are wrong.… Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.

Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.

That's one of the problems—and joys—of old age: every time you read a book it's the first.

The thought of resuming my life made me want to end it—unless I could change it completely.

Wakened one morning in some dive to know the game was up. Nausea, the shivers, the disease that bums, stevedores, poets, and the city elders all fell foul to. The syph. Had to be burned out of him. Oh man, the mercury that cured also took away, a descent into blindness. "I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.

holidays took the poisons out of everyday life.